Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Biomiris Capital Group B V maintains a company patent portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action currently in progress. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, indicating a focused prosecution phase.
The examination is taking place within 1 distinct art unit, which matches the 1 distinct examiner involved. NEIL P HAMMELL is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total pending office actions for the company is 1, this examiner is handling the entire active workload.
This concentration suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are specialized within a single technical domain. Practitioners will need to focus their efforts on the 1 distinct examiner, NEIL P HAMMELL, who is the sole official reviewing the pending matter. The 1 pending office action represents a streamlined administrative path within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector, requiring a targeted response to the 1 distinct art unit involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMMELL, NEIL P | 1 | 34.6% | +43.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17781480 | METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING MICROBES IN A CLINICAL AND NON-CLINICAL SETTING | HAMMELL, NEIL P | 133d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17781480 | METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING MICROBES IN A CLINICAL AND NON-CLINICAL SETTING | HAMMELL, NEIL P | 1681 | §112 | Final Rejection | 133d overdue | Pending | Jun 01, 2022 |
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